Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Ada Louise Huxtablewas an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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